'Dead Man's Shoes' opening sequence

'Dead Man's Shoes' starts off with a range of home footage and establishing shots. The opening sequence first uses the home filming of a baby and his happy life at home, and how we grows a few years older when his brother is born. Family shots at christmas and get togethers show the fun times the relatives would have together. As the audience, we know the footage is old as the setting is based decades ago and the flickers/scratching in the tape shows that it is a small low-quality super eight camera, popular in the 70's. The costumes and settings also establish when the decade the home footage was filmed.
The home tape switches to modern filming of two men. The first shot is an establishing shot of a field and the men walking through. One man is in front with a kit bag, maybe an army drawstring sack. He is also wearing a fitted cameo jacket. The man following him is younger, in a tracksuit. As the shots carry on, the relationship can be compared to the home footage of the two boys. People may argue that these shots show they have a close relationship and are brothers. The lead and follow directions show that one is more powerful or authoritative then the other, especially as his older age is more appaernt. The filming of these shots is the main core footage and uses modern technology. The setting is across the countryside and the weather is quite gloom, we, the audience, can tell that the filming is located in England from the weather and setting. The weather creates a pathetic fallacy of a dull atmosphere, contrasting with the happy home footage, implying that a situation has occurred over the years creating tension.